Software Architect

Location: Istanbul, Türkiye

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

We are seeking a Software Architect to join our Technology department and lead our Software team. This full-time role requires over 5-6 years of experience in software development, with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical & Electronics, Industrial Engineering, MIS, Informatics, or a related field. Based in Turkey, Senior Software Architect will be responsible for leading complex software development initiatives, ensuring effective team coordination, efficient resource allocation, and the delivery of high-quality solutions. This role also involves mentoring team members, managing project processes, and maintaining clear communication with stakeholders to achieve organizational goals.

Job Description

• Performs complex software development, testing and deployment tasks which are interconnected and possibly complement to each other, assigned to him/her in medium-large sized projects using relevant and necessary technologies
• Mentoring and monitoring development phases and processes of the team
• Responsible from team’s efficiency and job distribution between team members
• Responsible of code quality and maintainability, refactoring and code review
• Mainly responsible for coordinating the team members and the client, allocating the resources, and streamlining the processes
• Responsible for identifying the skills needed for the project and assigning the tasks based on the individual’s skills and experience
• Helping to recruit and hire the right team members for development teams.
• Coordinating with all parties involved in the project
• Communicating regularly with the product owners and project managers
• Communication with the payment schemes and certification labs
• Supporting PCI-DSS audit on customer promises

Necessary Skills and Experiences

• Familiarity Linux and/or Windows server and shell scripting languages
• Relational Database (Oracle, Postgre SQL, SQL Server or others) knowhow
• Familiarity with ITSM ticketing tools (Jira or others)
• Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Team player, ability to work in a part of a Developer Teams
• Fluent in English (written, spoken - upper intermediate)
• Strong analytical mindset, problem solving and strong communication skills
• Strong responsibility and ownership attitude, customer (service) oriented mindset is a must
• Experience working in DevOps and Agile culture
• Experienced in Java Spring, Spring Integration, JPA/Hibernate frameworks and Maven
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented programming architecture
• Preferably knowledgeable in Redis, Elasticsearch, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ technologies
• Experienced in enterprise software development management environments
• Deep knowledge in EMV, HSM, ISO-8583 and payment systems
• Hands-on experience on software development using Java, Microservice, Spring framework tools
• Hands-on experience on docker, Kubernetes, AWS and OCP
• Know-how in web service integration

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